There’s a new Red Band trailer for Joe Carnahan’s testosterone-fuelled man’s man flick The Grey and everything is looking suitably gruff. Amongst Liam Neeson’s growling and the trailer’s gleeful use of the word ‘f**k’, the film looks to revel in its back-to-basics, battle-in-the-wilderness premise.
Although this isn’t surprising coming from Carnahan, who has never been afraid to air his predilection for men being men, starting out as he did with the film Blood, Guts , Bullets and Octane. Add to this his recent adaptation of The A-Team and the underrated Smokin’ Aces and what we obviously have is a man familiar with the mechanics of action and the on-screen delivery of a hell of a lot of violence.
On general release next week, The Grey is looking interesting if not ground-breakingly subtle and since his transition into action films, Neeson is always good value.
A group of oil-rig roughnecks are left stranded on the sub-arctic tundra after their plane experiences a complete mechanical failure and crashes into the remote Alaskan wilderness. The survivors, battling mortal injuries, biting cold and ravenous hunger, are relentlessly hunted and pursued by a vicious pack of rogue wolves.
All seems in order then. Roughnecks (read: MEN), check. Wilderness, check. MORTAL injuries, BITING cold, RAVENOUS hunger, RELENTLESSLY hunted, VICIOUS pack of rogue wolves, check. It sounds INTENSE. Let’s hope it is, although I’m not sure how a pack of wolves can actually go rogue. Who cares? There’s no room for thinking when you’re busy surviving your mortal injuries. Whatever that means…
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